Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New WorldBloomsbury Academic, 2004 M11 23 - 495 páginas This volume fills a gap in traditional women's history books by offering fascinating details of the lives of early American women and showing how these women adapted to the challenges of daily life in the colonies. |
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... Plantation Mistresses The role of a plantation mistress was too dissimilar from that of a farmer's wife to be a useful compari- son . Because plantation labor was overwhelmingly delegated to a slave population , the planter and his wife ...
... Plantation Mistress Managing on Her Own It is believed that Affra Harleson fled her wealthy English home in 1670 to elope with John Coming , the first mate on a ship bound for America . The pair was married by the time the ship arrived ...
... plantation , where she beat a female slave so badly the woman nearly died . Lucy Parke Byrd , wife of the notorious ... plantation made it impossible to appeal to authori- ties . Appealing to the plantation mistress had its own set of ...
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African American Women | 14 |
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Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World Dorothy Auchter Mays Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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American Indian Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic Phillip M. White Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |